How low will dems go to pass healthcare plan?

This week was, in my opinion the most dispicable display of tugging at the american peoples` heartstrings that I ever witnessed.....

A health care news conference was held on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010, and in this public display of thuggery




Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., along with Gina Owens from Seattle, Wash.,whose daughter, Tiffany Owens died after losing her job and health care....
after more scrutney we find out that her daughter had a inoperable disease and was in fact receiving medical treatment.
Reed marches her up to the podium and in her well prepared speech she goes on to say that it was our(society)fault that her daughter didn`t have healthcare.
I disagree with this misrepresented statement, it wasn`t healthcare that she didn`t have( notice the fact that we have this arcadic law that states quite clearly that NO ONE can be turned down for medical treatment) it was in fact health ins that she was lacking.....
this my friends is a huge misdirection that the left uses whenever they are trying to advance their liberal agenda.

Then at the same press conference "big dick" durbin goes on to say that everyday 70 people die from lack of health ins....really? I would love to see where he gets his facts from. Let me ask you dick, how many people die everyday and HAVE health ins?
Simply the daydream that the libs/dems must be living in is that just because you have health ins you will live forever....is this the case dick?

On February 26, Les Blumenthal of The Olympian reported Murray shared the Marcelas talking point at the White House health care summit:

"Sen. Patty Murray has told the story of Marcelas Owens dozens of times before, but Thursday she may never have had a bigger audience as she talked of the 10-year-old Seattle boy whose mother died after she lost her health insurance coverage."


"I lost my mom because she didn’t have health care," Marcelas said. "Every day it’s hard not having her around. I don’t want any other kid to go through what I have gone through."


Senator Murray’s campaign website had a fuller version of the statement:

Marcelas Owens, whose entire family have been longtime members of the Washington Community Action Network, issued the following statement today thanking Senator Murray for her leadership:

"I want to thank Senator Murray for sharing my story with President Obama and other people in Congress. I lost my mom because she didn't have health care. Every day it's hard not having her around. I don't want any other kid to have to go through what I went through. That's why I don't understand why some politicians are saying that Congress should stop working to pass the health care reform bill. Every day we wait, more kids like me will lose someone they love. Thank you for fighting for me, Senator Murray."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfdsx1OHMfs

Clearly, a ten-year-old boy who lost his mother is a heart-tugging anecdote. But, aside from the desirability of using grade-schoolers in political debates, more knowledge about how organized this Marcelas campaign is displays that CBS and MSNBC are receptive recyclers of liberal Democrat video-press-release ideas.

Then you of course have the liberal media spin on this debate:

CNN's Jim Acosta omitted the left-wing affiliation of pro-ObamaCare protesters during a report on Wednesday's American Morning, referring to them as only "health care advocates and labor groups." Acosta, like his colleague Nancy Cordes at CBS, also highlighted child protester Marcelas Owens, and labeled him a "brave young man."

Kiran Chetry and John Roberts introduced Acosta's report, and the anchors also failed to mention the political bent of the protest, which was organized by the Health Care for America Now coalition (HCAN's members include the AFL-CIO, NAACP, and Planned Parenthood). Chetry remarked that "thousands though rallied in Washington against what they call 'insurance industry bullying.'"

15 percent of all decisions that are made in what is known as – air finger quotation marks – “the healthcare system,” end quote air fingers. 15 percent are actually paid for at the time of transaction by the consumer of the service. 15 percent. That in and of itself is a recipe for disaster. That in and of itself is going to drive costs, and it’s going to drive them up. Because as long as you’re spending somebody else’s money, or what you perceive to be somebody else’s or someone else’s money, or some other entity’s money, you’re not going to be frugal with it. You’re going to assume that they have been frugal with it.

You see, this is the great distraction here. The frugality end of the healthcare industry, then, falls solely on the shoulder of the insurance companies. Because the consumer has abdicated their responsibility. And there’s one surefire way to rein costs in tomorrow morning. And that is to exterminate by act of Congress all tax benefits that accrue to anyone that purchases anything called health insurance. No company gets it. No individual gets it. You have, look, your tax receipts are going to increase. And I’m not a proponent of this because I’m not a fan of the income tax and withholding to start with. But let me finish the statement here.

Your company then can no longer treat the income, which is what it is, that they are paying you through the benefit, which is why they do it. They don’t do it because they care about you. They don’t do it because it’s good business. They don’t do it for any of the other reasons that people lie through their teeth and say, oh, we care about our employees. No, you don’t. You care about profit, and that’s all you should care about. In your community you care about people. In your business, if you care about people – you know what they call people in business that care about other people? You know what they call them? Bankrupt. They call them out of business. They call them nonprofits. Eliminate the tax benefit. When you actually are going to have to go out and shop with the Geico gecko and with some dude that says that, like a good neighbor, some guy is there and what have you there, you’re going to make better deals.

You know those MRI machines that cost a million and a half, from the scarecrow dancing on the GE smart grid lines? You know those things? They’ll be a thing of the past if you have to pay directly for that scan. The way that machine is built today will become a thing of the past when an actual entrepreneur or a doctor actually has to buy that thing, and then actually has to sell the services and has to convince people, hey, the doctor’s not telling you you need that because he’s covering his behind with a slip-and-fall lawyer. The doctor is telling you he needs it because you actually need the service, but you’re going to have to pay for it.

You know, ladies and gentlemen, in most states there are these things that you could buy called catastrophic medical insurance policies. You can buy one with a $5,000 deductible. You can buy one with a $10,000 deductible. I think they ought to make them as high as you want to make it. Meaning that you’re only covered when you need, like the gentleman that just called, a million dollars’ worth of services, well, the first 20 grand could be on you. And the insurance will be priced accordingly. But most people don’t want to hear that because that’s difficult. But you have no problem doing that when it comes to your car insurance. I just can’t figure this out.

Retail sales rose three tenths of a percent in February. Ooooh. Three tenths of a percent. The recovery is here you say, really?. Retail sales posted a surprising increase in February as consumers did not let major snowstorms stop them from storming the malls. How were they out there storming malls when unemployment went up because of the snowstorm? Oh, I see, we’re not looking for a job, but you were out spending money you don’t have. What’s wrong with this picture?

Derbyshire on the Mike Church Show said yesterday that he doesn’t see how we’re ever going to go back to producing things, and that we’re doomed. I don’t know that we’re doomed, that we can never go back to making things, if we just stop lying to kids and telling them that they’re never going to have to fend for themselves, and that some of them are going to have to make things, and that they can proudly make things, and it’s fun, and it’s rewarding to make things. I don’t know. Hell, humans did it for about 7,000 years of recorded history, until the Federal Reserve came along.

If there is one thing you fine people take away from my rant on this subject, let it be this....
This ramrod is not about healthcare, its about the assult on your freedoms and liberties plain and simple, its about the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT taking over every aspect of your life, look past all the rhetoric, smoke screens and downright lies from both sides of the political aisle!
Yes, you heard me right, republicans as well as democrats are involved in this major power grab and downright fallacy.

Its about time everyone starts to realize this, good intentions and helping your fellow man is all fine and dandy but take this into consideration, my rights and freedoms are just as important as yours and when you use the coercion of the fed gov to take a percentage of my earnings to do your bidding, you are no different than the local bum, thief, mugger that takes from me at gunpoint!
Not to mention that when you forceably conscript me to support the lazy and shiftless you are making me their slave, one persons rights are no different from anothers!

As my good friend and mentor Mike Church states so elogently and diplomatically, "this will all end in tears!"